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The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management on Thursday published revised plans to conserve greater sage grouse populations across nearly 70 million acres of public land in 11 Western states. The Trump administration's approach will replace the original Obama-era plans...

House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., told reporters earlier this week that he expects the bill to be filed Monday and to be voted on by the House next Wednesday or Thursday, with the Senate to follow a day later, the Star Tribune reported.

The ownership and production of the Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report, an annual analysis of the gaps between agricultural production and future global population growth, is moving from the Global Harvest Initiative, a Washington-based nonprofit organization whose...

President George H.W. Bush's death and plans for him to lie in state at the Capitol with a funeral Wednesday at the National Cathedral are changing the schedule for both Congress and the executive branch of government this week, which is likely to affect the congressional...

President George H.W. Bush's death and plans for him to lie in state at the Capitol with a funeral Wednesday at the National Cathedral are changing the schedule for both Congress and the executive branch of government this week, which is likely to affect the congressional...

The White House issued a statement late Saturday detailing the "highly successful meeting" between Trump and Xi and their staffs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On trade, President Trump has agreed that he will not raise tariffs on January 1, 2019, on $200 billion worth of product...

Congressional leaders appear to be trying to bring up the farm bill in the House and Senate next week. A spokesman for House Agriculture Committee Michael Conaway, R-Texas, told DTN on Friday that Conaway "hopes" to bring the bill to the floor next week.

The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee agreed with his counterparts late Wednesday that the leaders on the House and Senate committees negotiating a farm bill have reached an agreement, but there are still a lot of details to work out before the legislation is moved...

A Louisiana congressman who serves on the House Agriculture Committee wants to change the way soybean farmers are paid under USDA's trade-aid program.

Changes to the methodology used to calculate a second round of trade aid payments are being called for by corn growers, contending the first payments did not take enough into account.

Environmental Working Group issued a report Monday meant to encourage farm-bill negotiators to stick with tighter farm-program payment standards in the Senate version of the farm bill rather than the House bill.

In an extraordinary development in state agricultural politics, Democrat Nikki Fried won the race for agriculture commissioner in Florida while Republicans won both the Florida governorship and the Senate seat as well as other lower level state races.

Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., was among those who took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Friday and backed a largely Republican effort to remove gray wolves from Endangered Species Act listings in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he discussed the farm bill and other topics with President Donald Trump on Thursday and that he is determined to finish the bill this year.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) on Wednesday launched a partnership "to improve environmental outcomes while optimizing productivity and profitability."

House aggies still have time to stick with the fundamentals of the farm bill goals sought by the vast majority of commodity and general agricultural groups during the hearing process and run up to 2018. They can work with the Senate, recognize the Senate has the numbers, and...

The House and the Senate will return to Washington today to begin the post-election lame-duck session that may or may not include passage of a new farm bill. The chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate agriculture committees have said they will push hard to finish...

The federal district court in Montana granted the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers (R-CALF USA) a motion to expand its beef checkoff program lawsuit to include at least 13 states in addition to Montana, R-CALF USA said in a news release Tuesday.

This is a mid-term election like few others, but in battles over the direction of Congress and state politics, there are a lot of close races to track.

A coalition of 213 groups, summarized as "farm, food, rural, faith and consumer advocacy organizations," seek lawmakers to cosponsor bills by Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, and Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, who introduced the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and...